Man who threaten to bomb Nitish Kumar's office arrested from Kolkata

The Patna Police have arrested a man from Kolkata for threatening to blow up Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's office, officials said. The man, identified as Mohammad Zahid (51), a native of Bhagwanpur block in Bihar's Begusarai district, was arrested on Monday night.

The accused had sent an email on July 16 under the name Al-Qaeda, which led to an FIR being registered against unknown persons on August 2 by the SHO of the Secretariat police station. During the investigation, Zahid's location was traced to the Bowbazar area in Kolkata, where he ran a paan shop on 40 BB Ganguly Street.

Zahid confessed to sending the email to frame three individuals, and the police seized the mobile phone used to send the email. Sushil Kumar, SDPO of Sadar Patna, stated, “We have arrested an accused who had sent an email threatening to explode the Chief Minister's office of Bihar. He mentioned three mobile numbers in the email. We found that the individuals associated with these numbers were innocent and had no connection to the email. The main accused hatched the conspiracy to frame them.”

Mohammad Zahid will be produced in a local court to obtain a transit remand for his transfer to Patna for further investigation.